Research Interests:

I am trained as a Canadian historian, and teach in both Development Studies and the History Department. I have varied research interests, including global childhood issues (such as adoption and migration conflicts), Canadian/global south relations, and Cuban musical cultures. Previous research projects included the history of sexual violence and the history of tourism in Canada. I co-teach an undergraduate course on Cuban culture, which takes Queen’s students to Havana for a field school in May. Through this work I have developed a subfield of research on music as a form of political language in contemporary Cuba.

Current Projects:

Children, Ideology, Iconography: How Babies Rule the World(book in progress, about the representation of children in the imagery of global political and social movements in the twentieth century)

Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford (eds.) Canada and The Third World: An Historical Introduction(in progress, introductory textbook about the history of Canada’s economic, political and social ties with countries of the developing world)

Supervisory Interests:

Most of my graduate supervisions are in the History department but I occasionally supervise graduate students in Global Development Studies and Cultural Studies.

Topics I have recently supervised (completed and in progress) include PhD dissertations on: aboriginal decolonization movements in the 1960s, Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Canadian countercultures in the 1960s, the history of Canadian toy manufacturing, Canadian/Caribbean economic and social relations, a comparative study of children’s rights in Canada and India, the transnational history of gay rights journalism, the history of tourism.

Other Appointments:

ProfessorJointly appointed with Department of History

Courses:

DEVS 100: Canada and the Third World

DEVS 305: Cuban Culture and Society (taught at Queen's University and the University of Havana)

HIST 865: Empires and Intimacies

Publications:

Books:

Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry and Henry Yu (eds.) Within and Without the Nation: Transnational Canadian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2015.)